Friday, December 28, 2018

Laughter on social media gives way to concern that 57,000 licensed drivers in country have some form of dementia

A viral video showing an older woman driving along a pavement in Japan – fortunately without incident – has highlighted the country’s struggle to halt a worrying rise in the number of accidents involving ageing drivers.

The clip has been viewed 6.8 million times and received 213,000 likes since it was posted on Twitter on Tuesday. It shows the woman as she drives her light silver hatchback along a wide pavement in the town of Nobeoka in Miyazaki prefecture, south-west Japan.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2GTfhRM

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